religious

We've all seen it while driving along either Route 8 or I-84 through Waterbury: the huge corss high atop Pine Hill. Many already know about it, but the 50-foot high cross marks the spot that was once Holy Land USA.

Center Church in New Haven is a little different from your normal centuries-old place of worship as it was built over a cemetery -- not on, but over, as the original tombstones and graves sit as they have for 300 years in a crypt beneath the raised-up building.

Gunntown Cemetery in Naugatuck is allegedly one of the most haunted graveyards in the state, with spirit orbs and mists recorded here, as well as EVPs and other strange phenomena. Update: We visit in Summer 2014!